3-597: The Old Oregon Trail Highway was an auto trail roughly following the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to Seaside, Oregon and Olympia, Washington . In the U.S. Highway system , it became: The name is still used in Oregon for Interstate 84 east of U.S. Route 730 , which is named the Old Oregon Trail Highway No. 6 (see Oregon highways and routes ). Auto trail The system of auto trails
6-504: The Lincoln Highway Association, were well-known and well-organized, while others were the work of fly-by-night promoters, to the point that anyone with enough paint and the will to do so could set up a trail. Trails were not usually linked to road improvements, although counties and states often prioritized road improvements because they were on trails. In the mid-to-late 1920s, the auto trails were essentially replaced with
9-521: Was an informal network of marked routes that existed in the United States and Canada in the early part of the 20th century. Marked with colored bands on utility poles , the trails were intended to help travellers in the early days of the automobile . Auto trails were usually marked and sometimes maintained by organizations of private individuals. Some, such as the Lincoln Highway , maintained by
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